Tag: Value Converters

Universal App Tutorials Part 13 : Custom Enum Attributes

Most applications need a settings page to allow a user to configure how they wish to use your application.  In this tutorial we’ll start to look at making the Translation Direction configurable.  We’ll shortly be adding in a Settings page, but there’s some groundwork required before we begin.

Outcome

By the end of this tutorial the Translation Direction Attribute should have a custom Display Attribute associated to it, allowing for the associated display string to be displayed on the view via a Value Converter, which will look up the display text for a given enum value. Continue reading “Universal App Tutorials Part 13 : Custom Enum Attributes”

Universal App Tutorials Part 11 : Value Converters

One of the rules of using MVVM is that your model shouldn’t need to know anything about the UI Layer, and your View should be decoupled from the Model via the ViewModel.  It can often be necessary to have some form of conversion between what our Model understands and what the View would understand.  A common example would be converting a boolean flag to a Visibility State, this is where Value Converters come in.

Outcome

We’ll follow a slightly more domain specific example in this case, converting the TranslationDirection Enumeration Property to a Visibility State for our Morse Input User Control.

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